East Baton Rouge Superintendent Bernard Taylor and district staff presented this document to board members, detailing his proposal to restructure the school system.
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A Blueprint for Transforming Achievement in East Baton Rouge Parish School System
4 Guiding Principles
1. High Quality community options for all 41,000+ children enrolled in the East Baton
Rouge Parish School System.
2. Empowering communities to ensure equity of access to excellent schools in every
community.
3. Empowering school leaders to have site based decision-‐making authority that are
critical to the success of all students.
4. Evolving control of functions, inclusive of decentralization, to ensure maximum
resources at a school/student level.
Objectives
High Quality community options for all 41,000+ children enrolled in the East Baton Rouge
Parish School System.
• The district will be subdivided into a minimum of 5 regions compromised of
families of schools.
• Create centers of excellence/ academic service center within school families
focusing on literacy and numeracy within elementary grades.*
• A school that is consistently failing will be reorganized, closed, placed on a
management agreement or chartered (Type 3).*
• The district shall partner with external providers to bring innovative ideas into the
schools.
Empowering communities to ensure equity of access to excellent schools in every
community.
• Children within a family of schools will be given first preference to attend any
school within their region (with the exception of magnets). *
• Magnet schools shall remain open to any and all students in the district.
• Each region shall have an advisory council comprised of X members who will help to
inform decisions related to regional leadership, principal selections, budgeting, and
activities.
• Create a minimum of 2 dedicated ELL centers within the district strategically placed
to serve the needs of this growing population. *
Empowering school leaders to have site based decision-‐making authority that are critical to
the success of all students.
• The district will partner with local universities and national entities to design a
leadership-‐training program for the district to ensure that school leaders have all
the knowledge and resources necessary to move students forward.
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Leaders shall be allowed to make building level decisions related to instruction,
technology, building level professional development, school-‐level budget,
assessment, extracurricular activities, partnerships, fundraising, staff selection, and
program offerings.
All school leaders will be required to design school improvement plans, innovation
strategies, or site based administration plans to be implemented for which they will
be held accountable and incentivized.
District funding will be equitably distributed, in accordance with law and policy,
among all schools regardless of type (Magnet, Title I, etc.)
The district shall work with local and national entities to develop a talent strategy
for developing teachers in the district and identifying/ training future teachers.
Evolving control of functions, inclusive of decentralization, to ensure maximum resources
at a school/student level.
• The district will consult with stakeholders to determine how best to decentralize
administrative oversight for each family of school.
• The District shall research and pursue opportunities to improve cost efficiency and
develop supplemental funding by reevaluating all central functions determine the